Fully Living Sacrifices

Where Nietzsche Was Right About Christians

What Nietzsche said in Der Antichrist about the shameful and unnatural
weakness of Christians has a great deal of truth in it, truth with which we
will someday have to come to grips. There has been something very wrong about
the way the gospel is so often interpreted among us—wrong because it
is not the will of God that we be the weak and passive things, the welcomers
of shame and of death and of inferiority and imperfection that we so frequently
are, the excuse being that we are put into this world to decrease and die.

For while it is true that we are here to die, we are put here first to live. There
is a lie hidden in the way that the call to di
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